soup-to-nuts

soup-to-nuts

Providing for the full range; with the beginning to the end in mind. (Used before a noun.) Refers to a once-traditional full course meal, beginning with soup and ending with a dessert of nuts. The organization is taking a soup-to-nuts approach to tackling food waste, from food producer, to restaurants, to consumers at home.They're offering soup-to-nuts services, covering all manner of technical issues for businesses.

However, the company has developed a highly integrated soup-to-nuts operation that allows it to make about 50 percent more profit than its competitors, and pay about 300 percent less in finance charges--largely because of its quick turnaround on renovations and subsequent sales.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is undertaking a soup-to-nuts review of its excavation standard to determine whether it should be changed "in order to minimize any significant impact of the rule on a substantial number of small entities and whether the rule should be changed to reduce regulatory burden or improve its effectiveness.

And when the Guggenheim Museum mounted a soup-to-nuts Braque retrospective in 1988, I paid little attention to anything but the Cubist work, feeling again that what happened later was just the predictable run of pretty variations on an already overrefined French sauce.

In addition to our experience, gained through the soup-to-nuts development and management of our own properties, we are able to offer additional services and resources that streamline the entire building management process," added Levine.

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